Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drilling on Emerging Africa Gold’s (EAGI-C) gold property in Guinea has returned some encouraging results.The best intersections from the Gobele vein assayed 14.9 grams gold per tonne over 27.5 metres…

Gold Funds as of July 18, 1996BGRCentralNet Value$23.19$6.44Price$18.00$6…

Wednesday, July 24, 1996Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$384.40+ $0.75Silver*$ 4.98…

Echo Bay Mines (ECO-X) has completed its acquisition of half of Santa Elina Gold (SAU-T), and, as a result, shareholders of the latter can exchange their shares for those of the former.Echo Bay raised…

Results from an 11-hole drill program on High River Gold Mines’ (T-HRG) Taparko property in Burkina Faso indicate that the GT zone has a minimum strike length of 300 metres.One of six gold-bearing zon…

BHP Minerals has exercised its option on the Little Bingham copper-gold property, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah.BHP will earn a 75% interest in the property from owner Centurion Mines (CTMC-Q) by …

The Muscocho group of companies, which have never fully recovered from their brush with insolvency in the late 1980s, have agreed to merge.A new company, named Golden Goose Resources, will emerge from…

Charles Bruce and Edward Derksen appointed directors.

Rene Carrier and James Hutchison elected directors; Brian Doutaz appointed president and chief executive officer.

Elmore Dillman, a mining promoter who worked across Canada, has died. He was 78.A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan’s mining engineering program, Mr. Dillman started his career in the late 19…

By autumn, the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) will be mandatory for many public companies.Described as an improvement over traditional paper filings made to Canadian sec…

Western markets were hit hard at the end of our report period ended July 23, erasing most of the gains made earlier in the week.The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index closed up 3.85 points at 1,…